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Alex Turner

Alex Turner (born January 6, 1986, Sheffield, United Kingdom), aged 40, is a British musician. Turner is best known for Stuck on the Puzzle.

Alex Turner’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Wood Ox, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Alex Turner’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Pioneer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Alex in the U.S.?

#232

US rank in 2025

~295,991

Americans share it since 1880

1993

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1986, Alex came 64th among boys and 1,055th among girls, carried by 5,111 American boys and 143 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Alex’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

5

Soul Urge · freedom

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on A (1) and closes on X (6). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Alex’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid

Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1985, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Alex apart

What keeps Alex Turner in print: Stuck on the Puzzle.

The classrooms behind this chart: Barnsley College and Stocksbridge High School.

The working life starts in 2002, at 16.

The same date carries Irina Shayk and Usha Vance. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Known for
Stuck on the Puzzle
Educated at
Barnsley College and Stocksbridge High School
Instruments
guitar and voice
Working from
2002
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
52

What the chart says

Alex, according to the stars

Core essence

Alex is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Alex is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Alex feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Alex needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How Alex wants to be loved

Alex wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Alex you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Alex creates

How Alex makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Alex creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Alex is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Alex is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Alex runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Alex's birth date. Working below.

Where Alex sits

Six lines

Alex’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Alex

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Alex

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Alex

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Alex

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Alex

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Alex

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Alex Turner

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sheffield on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Sheffield that night

Computed for 53.38°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Sheffield was Mirfak, in Perseus, 83.5° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.

At 53.4°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Sheffield at all: they sit past the −36.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 42° below the horizon, Moon down and 18% lit at waning crescent.

How unusual Alex's chart is

Chart pattern score

75 / 100 · Rare

4-planet stellium in Capricorn · A bundled chart · 1 unaspected planet

An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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The quick version

Capricorn Sun

Ambition wearing a plain coat.

Alex Turner's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 6, 1986, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Wood Ox

Reliable to the bone.

Alex Turner was born on January 6, 1986, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 4

Slow, solid, lasting.

Alex Turner's birth date, January 6, 1986, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Alex’s chart

Alex’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 28° Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.4° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.2° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.6° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.9° orbMercury fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2.8° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 3.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.2° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 5.5° orbSun in Capricorn · 15°52′☉15°Moon in Scorpio · 21°02′☽21°Mercury in Capricorn · 0°57′☿0°Venus in Capricorn · 12°44′♀12°Mars in Scorpio · 13°55′♂13°Jupiter in Aquarius · 19°27′♃19°Saturn in Sagittarius · 5°43′♄5°Uranus in Sagittarius · 19°49′♅19°Neptune in Capricorn · 3°47′♆3°Pluto in Scorpio · 7°02′♇7°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableJupitersextileUranus0.3° to 0.5° orb

    Alex’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenussextileMars0.9° to 1.5° orb

    Alex’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • stableSunsextileMars1.7° to 2.2° orb

    Alex’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune2.1° to 3.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus3.0° to 3.3° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.2° orb

  • stableMarssquareJupiter5.3° to 5.7° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto6.6° to 7.2° orb

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.2° to 14.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 1.7° to 14.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Alex’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 10°10′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 15°10′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 10°42′ (moves 0.69° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 20°14′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 24°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Uranus 0.4°
  • Ceres trine Sun 0.7°
  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.8°
  • Ceres sextile Mars 1.2°
  • Ceres trine Venus 2.4°

Alex’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Neptune

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Mars; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Alex’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, Venus, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.7°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 1.3°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.9°

Born the same day as Alex

2 other people here were born on January 6, 1986, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Sheffield, at 53.4°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.

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Alex’s cards

Computed from January 6, 1986. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Pioneer

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

4 · Architect

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Alex’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q315643 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Jason Persse from Brooklyn, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Alex Turner at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alex Turner.

Quick answers about Alex Turner’s chart

How old is Alex Turner?
Alex Turner is 40 years old, born January 6, 1986 in Sheffield, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Alex Turner?
Alex Turner is a Capricorn: born January 6, 1986, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What is Alex Turner's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 6, 1986 birth.
What is Alex Turner's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Alex Turner's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Alex Turner's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Alex Turner's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Neptune). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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